CineBRASIL

CineBRASIL will screen 11 films (4 features, 5 documentaries, and 2 shorts), and host two panel discussions with filmmakers and guest professors.

Wednesday, March 5 Opening night

5:00 – 6:30PM  -  Pre-screening Welcoming Cocktail Reception: Andreas Restaurant

7:00 – 9:00PM  -  Opening Screening  @ Avon Cinema - BATISMO DE SANGUE by Helvécio Ratton

About Wednesday's film:

BATISMO DE SANGUE (Blood Baptism) The true story of four Dominican friars – Tito (Caio Blat), Fernando (Léo Quintão), Ivo (Odilon Esteves) and Betto (Daniel de Oliveira) – who, in the late 1960s and moved by Christian ideals, decide to support a group of guerrillas in the fight against the military government. They are discovered, then arrested and dreadfully tortured in order to find their leader. Even in exile, those memories cannot be forgotten…
Helvécio Ratton / Fiction / 110min. / 35MM / 2006

Thursday, March 6 Screenings and Q&A w/ Director: An Evening with João Moreira Salles

5:00 – 700PM  -  Screening @  Salomon 001 - ENTREATOS by João Moreira Salles

7:00 – 9:00PM  - Screening @ Salomon 001 - SANTIAGO by João Moreira Salles

About Thursday's films:

ENTREATOS (Intermissions) From September 25 to October 28, 2002, Director Moreira Salles and his team followed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva through private conversations, political rallies, debates, family reunions and strategic discussions, among other revealing moments of the 2002 electoral campaign to become Brazil’s first President coming from the working class.
João Moreira Salles / Documentary / 115min. / Video / 2004

SANTIAGO A documentary about an unfinished film that Moreira Salles tried to make in previous years, but failed. An intimate and elegant story of a very unusual, well educated, scholarly butler, who was the director’s own childhood butler. Now he returns to the footage and makes a film on identity and the nature of documentary.
João Moreira Salles / Documentary / 80min. / Video / 2007

Friday, March 7 Screenings

3:00 – 5:00PM  -  Screening @ MacMillan Hall 117 - OLHAR ESTRANGEIRO by Lúcia Murat

5:00 – 7:00PM  - Screening @ MacMillan Hall 117 - PIXINGUINHA E A VELHA GUARDA DO SAMBA (short); MARIA BETHÂNIA - Pedrinha de Aruanda

7:00 – 9:00PM  -  Screening @ Avon Cinema - O CHEIRO DO RALO  by Heitor Dhalia

About Friday's films:

OLHAR ESTRANGEIRO (The Foreign Eye) Based on the book “O Brasil dos gringos”, by Tunico Amâncio, this documentary shows the vision that world cinema has of the country, through the films in which Brazil was a location, a theme or even a reference, and what is behind these productions, through interviews with their directors and screenwriters.
Lúcia Murat / Documentary / 72min. / Video / 2005

PIXINGUINHA e a Velha Guarda do Samba (Pixinguinha, the Old School of Samba) In April 1954, Thomaz Farkas shot, with his wind-up 16mm camera, Pixinguinha e o Pessoal da Velha Guarda at São Paulo’s fourth centenary festivities. This material was lost and then rediscovered 50 years later. “Pixinguinha” tells this story and recovers the lost footage.
Thomaz Farkas, Ricardo Dias / Documentary / 10min. / 35MM / 2006

MARIA BETHÂNIA, Pedrinha de Aruanda (Maria Bethânia, Touchstone from Aruanda) An Intimate Documentary on the Brazilian singer Maria Bethania featuring concerts, conversation with relatives (including brother Caetano Veloso) and friends in her hometown in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Directed by Andrucha Waddington, award-winning Director of “Me You Them” and “The House of Sand”.
Andrucha Waddington / Documentary / 60min. / 16MM / 2007

O CHEIRO DO RALO (Drained) has all it takes to become a Brazilian “cult” movie. This very original and well interpreted film focuses on the obsessions of a pawn shop owner, the even more unbelievable characters that come to his business, and the situations and thought-provoking ideas and themes that come from their interactions.
Hector Dhalia / Fiction / 100min. / 35MM / 2006

Saturday, March 8 Screenings and Panel Discussion

3:00 – 5:00PM  -  Screening @ Salomon 001 - GRANDMA HAS A VIDEO CAMERA by Tânia Cypriano

5:00 –7:00PM   -  Panel discussion @ Salomon 001 - With Tânia Cypriano (Director),  Maxine Margolis, and Carlos Siqueira on Brazilian Immigration

7:00 – 9:00PM  -  Screening @ Salomon 001 - ANTÔNIA by Tata Amaral

About Saturday's films:

GRANDMA HAS A VIDEO CAMERA A documentary about Cypriano’s own family, her grandmother’s home video camera and how she uses it to document, relive, chronicle and re-experience their lives in the United States for over 20 years. From enchantment to disillusionment, from idealization to conformity, first-hand images and voices depict how recently arriving immigrants see their new world and struggle to settle in this country. A panel discussion on Brazilian Immigration with the director and special festival guests (Maxine Margolis, Carlos Siqueira) will follow the screening.
Tânia Cypriano / Documentary / 56min. / Video / 2007

ANTÔNIA tells the story of a group of female singers whose dream is to make a living off their talent. These girls from the outskirts of São Paulo find a manager and start to put on shows in bars and parties. But, just as the dream seems to become true, their hopes are dashed by daily events, accompanied by poverty, chauvinism and violence, which not only threaten the group, but also put their friendship in jeopardy.
Tata Amaral / Fiction / 90min. / 35MM / 2006

Sunday, March 9 Screenings and Closing Reception

3:00 – 5:00PM  -  Screening @ MacMillan Hall 117 -  SATORI USO (short) by Rodrigo Grota; GINGA by Hank Levine, Marcelo Machado, and Tocha Alves 

5:00 – 7:00PM  -  Screening @ Avon Cinema - THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION by Cao Hamburger

7:00 – 8:30PM  -  Closing Reception: Kartabar Restaurant

About Sunday's films:

SATORI USO "What most interested me in Satori´s poetry was this tendency of searching disintegration, the disappearance itself. I believe his dream was to disappear in life... yes, physically... when I did the film, I tried to find a certain harmony between mute objects, with no apparent life, but that dance in their private universe. Satori ran away from light. I could only find him in the shadows."
Rodrigo Grota / Fiction / 18min. / HDV / 2007 

GINGA is a way of never taking life too seriously, of fighting hardship with the proper use of toes, heels and hips. For the last 505 years, Brazilians have been happily ginga-ing through life – and they recommend it to everybody. Ginga tells the amazing stories of several Brazilians, from very different social backgrounds and regions of the country. They all share their passion for soccer and ability with ginga. A mystical quality that allows you to dream and hope for more.
Hank Levine, Marcelo Machado, Tocha Alves / Documentary / 80min. / HDV / 2005

O ANO EM QUE MEUS PAIS SAIRAM DE FERIAS (The Year My Parents Went on Vacation) is a beautifully shot, tender story of a much less tender and complex part of Brazilian political past. Inspired by the Cinema Novo movement, this film takes us through the coming-of-age experience of Mauro, a twelve-year-old boy, who is forced to live with his estranged Jewish grandfather’s neighbor when his parents have to hide due to government repression.
Cao Hambruger / Fiction / 104min. / 35MM / 2007

Locations: The Avon Cinema (260 Thayer Street), MacMillan Hall (167 Thayer Street), Lower Salomon (Main Green, Brown Campus), and Kartabar Restaurant (284 Thayer Street).



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